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wet blanketed

wet blanketed is the simple past and past participle of wet blanket.

Meaning of wet blanket

Noun

wet blanket (plural wet blankets)

  1. (derogatory, endearing, idiomatic, usually) A person who takes the fun out of a situation or activity, as by pessimism, demands, dullness, etc.
  2. (derogatory, idiomatic, mildly) A timid person; one who lacks confidence; a wimp.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wet, blanket.

Questions about wet blanketed

What is wet blanketed the simple past and past participle of?
Wet blanketed is the simple past and past participle of wet blanket.

Words near wet blanketed in the dictionary

  1. wet bargains
  2. wet bars
  3. wet behind the ears
  4. wet beriberi
  5. wet blanket
  6. wet blanketed
  7. wet blanketing
  8. wet blankets
  9. wet bob
  10. wet bobs
  11. wet boy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wet blanketed (page history and authors); wet blanket (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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